one of my best friends is an army ranger. he is home on leave right now before his company deploys to iraq again. the other day he told me about these gloves they have that are made by oakley. they have a hard carbon fiber knuckle plating which makes these gloves more bad ass than van damme on a harley chasing a terrorist.
click for larger imagethey are $70 and you can buy them at oakley.com

Great idea